CATALOGUE 
of  an  Exhibition  of 

EARLY 
AMERICAN 
PAINTINGS 


BROOKLYN  MUSEUM 

FEBRUARY  3rd,  to  MARCH  12th,  1917 


George  Washington  (Lansdowne  tvpe) 

by 

Gilbert  Stuart 


CATALOGUE 
of  an  Exhibition  of 

EARLY 
AMERICAN 
PAINTINGS 


held  in  the 
BROOKLYN  MUSEUM 
February  3rd,  to  March  12th,  1917 


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The  present  Exhibition  of  Early  American 
Paintings  was  planned  for  the  Brooklyn 
Museum  because  there  had  been  no  similar 
public  exhibition  in  New  York  since  the 
Metropolitan  Museum  exhibit  of  1911,  a  suffi- 
cient interval  to  justify  a  revival  of  effort  and 
interest  in  this  phase  of  our  national  art. 
Previously  there  had  been  special  exhibitions 
at  the  Pennsylvania  Academy  of  the  Fine  Arts 
in  December,  1887 ;  in  the  Metropolitan  Opera 
House  in  April  and  May,  1889,  the  year  of  the 
Washington  Centennial ;  at  the  Boston  Art 
Club  in  1908  and  again  in  September  1909  at 
the  Metropolitan  Museum  in  connection  with 
the  Hudson-Fulton  Celebration. 

It  is  well  for  the  student  of  American  life 
to  remember  that  the  art  of  painting  in  the 
United  States  since  we  have  become  an  organic 
people,  and  in  the  Colonial  period  preceding, 
was  no  exotic,  no  foreign  fad,  no  mere  imitation 
of  an  alien  custom.  It  was  a  spontaneous 
expression  of  culture  arising  out  of  the  deeds 
of  our  forefathers  and  the  special  conditions 
which  surrounded  life  in  the  early  days  of  our 
country.  It  was  as  distinctive  from  English 
paintings  of  the  eighteenth  and  the  first  half 
of  the  nineteenth  centuries,  the  period  covered 
by  the  Early  American  Exhibition,  as  the  art 
of  France  and  of  Germany  to-day.  Out  of  it 
grew  the  vigorous  American  school  of  the 
present. 


It  is  well  to  remember  also  that  many  of 
the  American  artists  of  this  period  were  by 
training1  and  talent  among  the  most  competent 
of  their  time  and  their  works  are  highly  es- 
teemed by  the  connoisseurs  of  all  countries. 

The  exhibition  is  rich  in  historic  suggestion. 
The  battle  scenes  and  the  portraits  of  the 
Presidents  and  other  representative  Americans 
of  the  different  generations,  painted  from  life, 
recall  the  story  of  our  national  existence  with 
a  vividness  hardly  possible  in  the  written 
record. 

To  the  institutions  and  individual  owners 
who  have  contributed  of  their  treasures  so 
generously  to  the  exhibition  The  Brooklyn 
Museum  Committee  makes  grateful  acknowl- 
edgment. 


LIST  OF  ARTISTS 
AND  PAINTINGS 


(The  names  of  contributors  appear  on  the 
right  hand  side  in  smaller  type) . 

AMES,  Ezra,  early  19th  century 

1  Governor  George  Clinton 

The  Misses  White 

2  Mrs.  James  King 

Mrs.  Franklin  Bartlett 

BADGER,  Joseph,  1708-1765 

3  Captain  John  Larrabee 

Mr.  M.  L.  Goodwin 

BEARD,  James  Henry,  1814-1893 

3a    President  William  Henry  Harrison 

Mrs.  Benjamin  Harrison 

BIRCH,  Thomas,  1779-1851 

4  The  Constitution  and  the  Guerriere 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

5  The  United  States  and  the  Macedonian 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

6  The  Wasp  and  the  Frolic 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

BLACKBURN,  Jonathan, 

ca.  1700-ca.  1765 

7  Mrs.  Joshua  Babcock 

Mr.  William  Macbeth 


COPLEY,  John  Singleton, 

1737-1815 

8  Adam  Babcock 

Miss  A.  G.  Chapman 

9  Mrs.  Adam  Babcock 

Miss  A.  G.  Chapman 

10  Mrs.  John  Bacon 

Mr.  Walter  H.  Crittenden 

1 1  Mrs.  Joseph  Barrell 

Mrs.  Robert  Lee  Hale 

12  Mrs.  Joseph  Barrell 

Mrs.  William  A.  Putnam 

13  Mrs.  Ben  Davis 

Brooklyn  Museum 

14  Mrs.  Isaac  Holmes 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

15  John  B.  Holmes 

Mrs.  William  A.  Putnam 

16  Jonathan  Mountfort 

Miss  Nancy  M.  Sanborn 

17  James  Murray 

Mr.  Frank  Lyman 

18  Epes  Sargent 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  G.  H.  Clements 

19  Daniel  Crommelin  Verplanck 

Mr.  William  E.  Verplanck 

20  Death  of  Earl  of  Chatham  (study) 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

21  Death  of  Major  Pierson  (first  sketch  for) 

Mr.  John  Hill  Morgan 


DUNLAP,  William,  1766-1839 

22    Robert  Snow 


Brooklyn  Museum 


DURAND,  Asher  Brown,  1796-1886 

23    Mrs.  Winfield  Scott 

Mr.  Albert  Rosenthal 


EARL,  Ralph,  1751-1801 

24  Mrs.  Charles  Jeffery  Smith 

Prof.  Theodore  S.  Woolsey 

E1CHHOLTZ,  Jacob,  1776-1842 

25  Mary  Justice  Cooper 

Mr.  Samuel  W.  Cooper 

26  William  Heathcote  De  Lancy 

Mr.  Alexander  Smith  Cochran 

27  John  Howard  Payne 

Mr.  John  Frederick  Lewis 

ELLIOTT,  Charles  Loring, 

1812-1868 

28  Gen.  John  C.  Fremont 

Mr.  William  S.  Hughes 

FEKE,  Robert,  ca.  1750 

29  Pamela  Andrews 

Rhode  Island  School  of  Design 


HALL,  George  Henry,  1825-1913 

30  Portrait  of  the  Artist 

Brooklyn  Museum 

HARDING,  Chester,  1792-1866 

31  Daniel  Boone 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

32  Edward  Hutchinson  Robbins 

Mr.  Frank  Lymah 

HEALY,  George  Peter  Alexander, 

1808-1894 

33  Moses  Pond 

Mrs.  Dunlap  Hopkins 

HESSEL1US,  Gustavus,  1682-1755 

34  The  Last  Supper 

Mr.  Charles  Henry-  Hart, 
Attorney  for  Mrs.  Helen  Gassaway 

HUNTINGTON,  Daniel,  1816-1906 

35  President  Martin  Van  Buren 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

36  The  Sketcher  (Mademoiselle  Rosina) 

Brooklyn  Museum 

INMAN,  Henry,  1802-1846 

37  Fanny  Kemble  Butler 

Brooklyn  Museum 

38  Rev.  Henry  Croswell 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 


39  William  Inman 

Mr.  Albert  Rosenthal 

40  Mrs.  Robert  Lowden 

Brooklyn  Museum 

41  President  James  Madison 

Mr.  Alexander  Smith  Cochran 

42  H.  B.  Pierrepont 

Mr.  Robert  Low  Pierrepont 

43  View  of  Rydal  Water 

Mr.  William  H.  IngersoD 

JAR  VIS,  John  Wesley,  1780-1834 

44  Col.  James  Burn 

Brooklyn  Museum 

45  Governor  DeWitt  Clinton 

Mr.  William  E.  Verplanck 

46  Col.  William  Croghan 

Mr.  Christopher  B.  Wyatt 

47  Lucy  Clark  Croghan 

Mr.  Christopher  B.  Wyatt 

48  Peter  Augustus  Jay 

Miss  Pierrepont 

LESLIE,  Charles  Robert,  1794=1859 

49  Portrait  of  a  Lady 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

MARCHANT,  Edward  D.,  1806-1887 

50  President  William  Henry  Harrison 

Mr.  John  Frederick  Lewis 


MORSE,  Samuel  Finley  Breeze, 

1791-1872 

51  President  John  Adams 

The  Misses  White 

52  Moss  Kent 

Mr.  Frank  W.  Bayley 

53  Marquis  de  La  Fayette 

Brooklyn  Museum 

54  Stephen  Mix  Mitchell 

Connecticut  Historical  Society 

55  Mrs.  S.  M.  Mitchell 

Connecticut  Historical  Society 

56  Susan  Walker  Morse 

(known  as  the  *  Muse ') 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

NEAGLE,  John,  1799-1865 

57  Levi  Dickson 

Mr.  John  Frederick  Lewis 

58  Sergt.  Andrew  Wallace 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

OTIS,  Bass,  1784-1861 

59  President  William  Henry  Harrison 

Mr.  Alexander  Smith  Cochran 

PEALE,  Charles  Willson,  1741-1827 

60  Capt.  Robert  Allen 

Mr.  John  Frederick  Lewis 

61  Mrs.  Q.  Bell 

Mr.  Albert  Rosenthal 


62  Col.  Tench  Tilghman 

Mr.  Albert  Rosenthal 

63  George  Washington  (bust) 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

64  George  Washington  (f  ull=length) 

Mr.  Thomas  E.  Kirby 

PEALE,  James,  1749-1831 

65  James  Hamilton 

Mr.  Alexander  Smith  Cochran 

PEALE,  Rembrandt,  1778-1860 

66  President  William  Henry  Harrison 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

67  William  Hill 

Mrs.  James  L.  Morgan 

68  Mrs.  William  Hill 

Mrs.  James  L.  Morgan 

69  Chief  Justice  John  Marshall 

Long  Island  Historical  Society 

70  George  Taylor 

Brooklyn  Museum 

71  George  Washington 

Mr.  Charles  Henry  Hart, 
Attorney  for  Mrs.  Lewis  S.  Jervey 

72  George  Washington  (port-hole  type) 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

PINE,  Robert  Edge,  1730-1788 

73  Gen.  Horatio  Gates 

Mr.  Alexander  Smith  Cochran 


74  Gen.  Henry  Lee 

Mr.  John  Frederick  Lewis 

75  George  Washington 

Mr.  Grenville  Kane 

76  Mary  Ball  Washington 

Mr.  W.  Lanier  Washington 

PRATT,  Matthew,  1734-1 805 

77  Mrs.  Peter  De  Lancey 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

SAINT-MEMIN,  Charles  Balthazar 
Julien  Fevret  de,  1770*1852 

78  James  Campbell 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

79  Theodore  Gourdin 

Mr.  John  Hill  Morgan 

80  Seth  Hastings 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

81  A  Philadelphia  Gentleman 

Mr.  R.  T.  H.  Halsey 

SAVAGE,  Edward,  1761-1817 

82  Gen.  Henry  Knox 

Mr.  Alexander  Smith  Cochran 

SHARPLES,  James,  ca.  1751-1811 

83  Dr.  Elihu  Smith 

Mr.  Walter  H.  Crittenden 

84  Dr.  Reuben  Smith 

Mr.  Walter  H.  Crittenden 


85  Charlotte  Tabb 

Mr.  John  Hill  Morgan 

86  Emory  Tabb 

Mr  John  Hill  Morgan 

87  George  Washington  (profile) 

Mr.  John  Pierpont  Morgan 

88  George  Washington  (full=face) 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

SMIBERT,  John,  1 688»  1 75 1 

89  Alexander  Garden 

Mr.  Thomas  B.  Clarke 

STUART,  Gilbert,  1755=1828 

90  Col.  Isaac  Barre 

Brooklyn  Museum 

91  Capt.  John  Chestnut 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

92  Lady  Frances  Erskine 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

93  Gen.  Peter  Gansevoort 

Mrs.  Abraham  Lansing 

94  Hon.  Thomas  B.  Law 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

95  Mrs.  Thomas  B.  Law 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

96  President  James  Madison 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

97  Thomas  McKean 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 


98  Samuel  Myers 

Mrs.  John  Hill  Morgan 

99  Capt.  Richard  Pearson 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

100  Col.  William  Stephens  Smith 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

101  George  Washington  (Athenaeum  type) 

Ehrich  Galleries 

102  George  Washington  (Vaughn  type) 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

103  George  Washington  (Lansdowne  type) 

Mr.  Robert  Low  Pierrepont 

104  John  Watts,  Sr. 

Brooklyn  Museum 

SULLY,  Thomas,  1783=1872 

105  Capt.  William  Chamberlain 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

106  Mrs.  William  Chamberlain 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

107  Elizabeth  Cook  (Mrs.  B.  F.  Bache) 

Mr.  John  Hill  Morgan 

108  Joseph  A.  Dougan 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

109  Theodore  Qourdin 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

110  John  Hogg 

Mr.  Jonathan  Bulkley 

111  Lieut.  William  Henry  Korn 

Mr.  William  Henry  Fox 


112  Hannah  Seagraves  Reeves 

Mrs.  Allen  McLane  Hamilton 

113  The  Spanish  Mantilla 

Miss  Sarah  Throckmorton  Meigs 

SULLY,  Thomas  Wilcocks,  Jr., 

1811-1847 

114  President  John  Tyler 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

TRUMBULL,  John,  1756-1843 

115  William  Brown 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

116  Governor  George  Clinton 

City  of  New  York 

117  Alexander  Hamilton 

Mr.  Frederick  W.  Hinrichs 

118  Ralph  Kirkley 

Mr.  David  H.  Lanman 

119  Peter  Lanman 

Mrs.  William  Lanman  Bull 

120  Mrs.  Peter  Lanman 

Mrs.  William  Lanman  Bull 

121  Sortie  from  Gibraltar 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

VANDERLYN,  John,  1775-1852 

122  Col.  Moses  Thomas 

Mr.  John  Frederick  Lewis 

123  Sampson  V.  S.  Wilder 

Mrs.  Wilder  H.  Haines 


WALDO,  Samuel  L-,  1783-1861 


124  Mrs.  Sampson  V.  S.  Wilder 

Miss  R.  V.  Halsey 

125  William  Steele 

Mr.  W.  D.  Steele 

126  Mrs.  William  Steele 

Mr.  W.  D.  Steele 

127  Joseph  Moss  White 

Mr.  Alfred  T.  White 

128  Portrait  of  a  Gentleman 

Brooklyn  Museum 

WERTMULLER,  Adolf  Ulrich, 

1749=1812 

129  Andrew  Hamilton,  IVth. 

Mr.  John  Frederick  Lewis 

130  Mrs.  Andrew  Hamilton 

Mr.  John  Frederick  Lewis 

131  Portrait  of  the  Artist 

Mr.  John  Frederick  Lewis 

WEST,  Benjamin,  1738-1820 

132  Dr.  Enoch  Edwards 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

133  American  Peace  Commissioners, 

Treaty  of  1782 

Mr.  John  Pierpont  Morgan 


W1NSTANLEY,  William, 

Late  18th  century 

134  President  John  Adams 

Mr.  Alexander  Smith  Cochran 

WOOLASTON,  John,  ca.  1 750 

135  Portrait  of  a  gentleman,  thought  to  be 

Lawrence  Washington 

Mr.  John  Frederick  Lewis 

UNKNOWN  ARTISTS,  18th  century 

136  Major  John  Dies 

Mr.  De  Witt  A.  Clarke 

137  Mrs.  John  Dies 

Mr.  De  Witt  A.  Clarke 

138  Johannes  Panet 

The  Misses  Marshall 

139  Mrs.  Johannes  Panet 

The  Misses  Marshall 

140  Frances  Peyton  Tabb 

Mrs.  John  Hill  Morgan 


LIST  OF  MINIATURES 

ALLSTON,  Washington, 

(1779-1843) 

141  Portrait  of  a  Lady 

Mr.  R.  T.  H.  Halsey 

BIRCH,  William,  (1755-1834) 

142  Marquis  de  La  Fayette 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

COPLEY,  J.  S.,  (1737-1815) 

143  John  Sparhawk 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

CUMMINGS,  Thomas  Seir, 

(1804-1894) 

143    Erasmus  Darwin  Foote 

Brooklyn  Museum 

145  Elizabeth  Stirling  (Mrs.  Foote) 

Brooklyn  Museum 

DUNLAP,  William,  (1766-1839) 

146  Charles  Brockden  Brown 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

147  Portrait  of  the  Artist 

Prof.  Theodore  S.  Woolsey 

148  Portrait  of  the  Artist 

Prof.  Theodore  S.  Woolsey 


FIELD,  Robert,  (1798-1819) 

149  Dr.  James  Sergeant  Ewing 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

150  George  Washington 

(after  Gilbert  Stuart) 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

FRASER,  Charles,  (1782-1860) 

151  Alice  Belin  Flagg 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

152  James  Gourdin  of  Charleston,  S.  C. 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

153  William  Manigault  Heyward 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

154  James  Lad  son  of  Charleston,  S.  C. 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

155  Captain  William  Petigru 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

GOODRICH,  Sarah,  1788-1853 

156  Grenville  Mellen 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

157  Daniel  Webster 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

158  Gen.  Henry  Lee 

Mr.  Luke  Vincent  Lockwood 

MALBONE,  Edward  G„  (1777-1807) 

159  Caleb  Abell 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 


160  Joseph  Barrell 

Mrs.  Walter  H.  Crittenden 

161  Mrs.  William  Blacklock 

Mr.  R.  T.  H.  Halsey 

162  M.  Livingston  De  Lancey 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

163  Sarah  Ladson  Gil  mo r 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

164  Charles  Harris  of  Boston 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

165  Richard  D.  Harris  of  Boston 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

166  Captain  George  Izard 

Mr.  R.  T.  H.  Halsey 

167  Elizabeth  Alston  Jervey 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

168  Miss  Poinsett  of  South  Carolina 

Mr.  R.  T.  H.  Halsey 

169  Joel  R.  Poinsett 

Mr.  R.  T.  H.  Halsey 

170  "  The  Little  Scotch  Girl  M 

Mr.  R.  T.  H.  Halsey 

171  Col.  Richard  Singleton  of  South  Carolina 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

172  Archibald  Taylor  of  Newport 

Mrs.  A.  M.  Parker 

173  Major  Samuel  Wragg 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

174  Portrait  of  the  Artist  (1797) 

Mr.  R.  T.  H.  Halsey 


PEALE,  James,  (1749-1831) 

175  James  Claypoole  Copper 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

176  Mrs.  James  Claypoole  Copper 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

177  Chancellor  John  Johnson 

Mr.  J.  Hemsley  Johnson 

PEALE,  Rembrandt,  (1778-1860) 

178  Henrietta  Maria  Hemsley  Earle 

Mr.  J.  Hemsley  Johnson 

179  Doyle  E.  Sweeney 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

RAMAGE,  John,  (died  1802) 

180  John  Hampton  Chase  of  Maryland 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

ROGERS,  Nathaniel,  (1788-1844) 

181  Mrs.  Gabriel  Manigault 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

SULLY,  Lawrence, 

182  Patrick  Henry  (dated  1795) 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

TROTT,  Benjamin,  (179 1-1839) 

183  Lewis  Adams 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 


TRUMBULL,  John,  (1756-1843) 

184  William  Laughton  Smith 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

VAN  DYKE,  (American,  ca.  1815) 

185  James  Lyon 

Mr.  Luke  Vincent  Lockwood 

UNKNOWN  ARTISTS 

186  James  Bogert,  Jr.  at  21  (1788) 

Mrs.  E.  P.  Guerard 

187  James  Bogert,  Jr.  circa  1835 

Miss  J.  Bogert 

188  Patience  Turner  (Mrs.  Macintosh) 

Miss  J.  Bogert 

189  William  McMechen 

Mr.  J.  Hemsley  Johnson 

190  Portrait  of  a  Gentleman 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

191  Portrait  of  a  Gentleman 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 

192  Portrait  of  a  Gentleman 

Mr.  Herbert  Lee  Pratt 


The  furniture  shown  in  this 
exhibition  is  merely  an  attempt  to 
arrange  the  small  collection  recently 
acquired  by  the  Museum  with  some 
regard  to  period  and  style.  The 
Museum  intends,  when  space  in  the 
new  building  is  available,  to  show 
period  rooms,  including  original 
woodwork,  as  well  as  furnishings. 


A  special  catalogue  of  the  one 
hundred  and  forty  paintings,  with 
descriptions  of  the  subjects  and  half- 
tone  reproductions  of  every  picture, 
printed  on  fine  paper  with  wide 
margins  and  handsomely  bound  in 
cloth  is  offered  for  sale  at  ten  dollars 
a  copy. 

The  edition  Is  limited  to  five 

/ 

hundred  copies. 

Inquire  of  the  attendants. 


